NCSSM-Morganton

The Morganton campus of the nation’s first public, residential STEM high school, challenging and inspiring NC students.

In 2016, North Carolina voters passed the Connect NC bond package which included $58 million to grow a second campus of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Morganton (NCSSM). Planning commenced in late-2016 with the hiring of an architectural firm, educational program design consultants, and a planning director. NCSSM will open its second campus in 2022 to the first class of residential students.

Photos from North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics's post

06/03/2026

For more than four decades, NCSSM has been at the heart of innovative public education in the United States, particularly in science, mathematics, and engineering. One need only look at the thousands of accomplished alumni across the state and nation who have gone on to highly successful careers across a broad spectrum of fields to see the value that NCSSM brings to the public education sphere. They are the reason NCSSM exists.

The lifeblood of the school is its faculty and staff, however. Whether in the classroom, at the administrative level, or in the support roles that are so vital, the folks that work at NCSSM are the engine of the school. They are among the very best America has to offer its students, and every year they advance the frontiers of what’s possible in a public school classroom.

Because these members of the NCSSM family are at the very core of who NCSSM is, the school honors, at the end of each academic year, the dedication of those who have given so significantly of themselves to NCSSM and are now heading into well-deserved retirement.

To read more about these outstanding individuals and their substantial contributions to NCSSM, please visit the link in the comments below.